
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Divide County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 2,283 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 436 | 100.0 | Native | 2,228 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5 | 1.1 | Born in United States | 2,204 | 96.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 20 | 4.6 | State of residence | 1,816 | 79.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 236 | 54.1 | Different state | 388 | 17.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 151 | 34.6 | Born outside United States | 24 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 24 | 5.5 | Foreign born | 55 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 32 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 28 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,741 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 27 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 168 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 173 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 608 | 34.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 55 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 419 | 24.1 | Europe | 8 | 14.5 | |
| Associate degree | 142 | 8.2 | Asia | 6 | 10.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 196 | 11.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 35 | 2.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.4 | (X) | Northern America | 41 | 74.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,214 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,934 | 100.0 | English only | 2,124 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 328 | 17.0 | Language other than English | 90 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,214 | 62.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 12 | 0.6 | Spanish | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Widowed | 228 | 11.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 200 | 10.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 81 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 152 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 65 | 3.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,283 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,831 | 124.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | 0.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 57 | 2.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,824 | 100.0 | Dutch | 24 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 277 | 15.2 | English | 91 | 4.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 52 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 548 | 24.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 441 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 24 | 5.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,095 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 135 | 5.9 | |
| With a disability | 101 | 9.2 | Italian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 994 | 90.8 | Norwegian | 1,478 | 64.7 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 28 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 587 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 194 | 33.0 | Russian | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 19 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,214 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,629 | 73.6 | Swedish | 200 | 8.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 566 | 25.6 | Swiss | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 262 | 11.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 304 | 13.7 | United States or American | 22 | 1.0 | |
| Same state | 223 | 10.1 | Welsh | 10 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 81 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 19 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 122 | 5.3 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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